I Love Thursday #59 – Back to Normal

This is our 59th post of things we love for the week. We post these loves each Thursday along with LeeAnna on her blog at Not Afraid of Color. Several additional friends also share on a weekly basis – be sure to check them out. You will surely find something to inspire you.

Love #1

A basket full of quilts! Not too long ago, Sue and I went down to the lake front for a photo shoot. It was a nice, cloudy day with a bit of a breeze. I didn’t realize just how many quilts we had to take photos of! A spare clothes basket was plumb full of quilts awaiting the glamour shot ala Wendy.

Love #2

Winter it here on November 9th! Well, I may not actually love this one whole heartedly. It does look pretty! Initially, we enjoyed snow accumulation on only the grassy surfaces. Wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy that all winter? However, we awoke to a snow covered driveway thanks to the strong wind. I also discovered I need a new shovel, but it worked okay for this light job. Long shadows mean I was up shoveling really early. I’m sure the neighbors wondered what the heck?!! HAHA! It didn’t occur to me until I was done.

Love #3

Brandy! Look at this cute little princess (her mom’s term which I think is fitting) named Brandy. She proudly wore an “I Voted” sticker on Tuesday. I told her she was a good girl, and I thanked her for doing her civic duty. Unfortunately, her vote didn’t count as it is required that she have a current, up-to-date, Wisconsin issued ID. Her passport wasn’t good enough. Brandy was contemplating moving to another state but I convinced her to just stay here by her peeps. Seriously though, look how cute she looks with her toy laying right there ready to be played with. She fits well within one 12″ tile, cute little girl.

Love #4

My Grandma’s of New England Coffee Cake! When you drive in to work on voting day and it is rainy, and dark, and nothing is going right but you are trying to stay positive. And then your coworker comes in and says it voting cake day!! Who knew that was even a day – or she may have made that part up?!! We had one or two or three pieces of cake within an hour or so, maybe. Cake makes every day better, doesn’t it?! It alleviates stress, it puts a smile on your face, you get to say yummy, yummy, and allows you to laugh with your boss and coworkers. So very delicious with coffee.

A very, very big LOVE to share. I never heard of this brand before, have you? We even had leftovers to enjoy the dreaded day-after-voting while they tell us what we think, what happened, and what it means to the world. Ugg. Oh – I love my coworkers!! ♥ ♥

Love #5

Oh dear, it is SO very hard to limit myself to just a few photos of our dear boy Dominic. He does such cute stuff every minute he is awake, that I can hardly choose some weeks. Gosh, such problems to have. Here are my picks for this week and a little explanation about them.

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First up, Dominic John reporting for duty in full Cubs regalia. He’s ready for any errands you care to do. Next, yes sir he can walk in his Elmo slippers without issue now. He rather resembles someone carefully walking through puddles. And last, our boy likes to push the button for the stove light as he passes by and make the cupboards squeak. He is fascinated that the light comes on and then goes off when you push the button. Image that! But wait there are more because he came over for a visit on Sunday. We were over the moon! He loves to read his book to Auntie Rose who dotes on every word. Then, we must hold Auntie Sue’s finger while we watch Elmo. Our hearts melted a little bit more. After all of that goodness, he gives an adoring look to Sue for her clever game. Is she having that much fun too?!! The final, final picture is sweetness wearing a new Packer hat even though he doesn’t like hats. ♥ ♥

That’s it for this week! We hope your week is filled with many blessings. Happy Thursday! See you next week with more loves. Our Linky Parties can be found by clicking the link for more quilting fun or in the sidebar of our website – check out what our friends are up to. Like/follow us on our Facebookpage and share your likes/loves there! We love to see them. ~smile~

I like your I like Thursdays, but truth be told. I am here to see Dominick. 😀 Wait you had a basket of quilts you photographed? Voting day cake. Looks yummy. Yeah I am sure your neighbors loved you. At least you were not snow blowing.

I’ve gotten to where I need my dose of Dominic every Thursday! LOL He is too, too cute! The coffee cake was a great idea! Was the snow deep enough you had to scrape it off? I would have scraped two tire tracks. LOL I’m so danged lazy.

Around here I have to get up early to do urgent outside stuff since I don’t get home till after dark with the short days, but luckily our first snow Monday melted right away. Dom is so cute! He looks great in those elmo slippers!

I always love your Dominic pictures – it’s hard to pick a favorite, but walking in the slippers is a top candidate! What a sweet coworker to bring voting day cake! We used to say that some days at school were “3 donut days.” You couldn’t stop yourself because things in the classroom were so crazy!

Rosanne, you do such a beautiful blog. I look forward to it each day. I love the quilting projects, the little guy updates, the honesty of telling us when you feel like you have lost your creative mojo for a while and so glad when you get it back. Just a delight to find such a warm, kind, and always informative blog. Thanks.

You are spot on! Love snow that only goes on the grass…that would be my perfect scenario. Looks like we are getting our first – feels early for us. AND, that coffee cake – OMG! We get it at church sometime and I love it – can’t make it any better so buying it wins everytime!

Lots of yummy things in this post, Roseanne. Cake at work is always the best! Loads of finished quilts, an adorable and obedient little dog and a beautiful montage of that sweet little boy. I had to shovel this week too, just a little, but still. Ugh.

Well, that basket is certainly full of goodies. Can’t wait to see the glam shots! I’m thankful that most of our snow has disappeared, thanks to yesterday’s heatwave (40 degrees – ha). Dominic is adorable, but of course you already know that!